I guess all those US politicians claiming that the .50 BMG rifle can bring down and airliner made a dent on the minds of politicians and military Down Under.

Back in the US. .50 Cal rifle owners shot to their heart’s (and budget) content this past weekend without any reports of aircraft being downed by the nuclear aftermath of its use.

B.L.U.F. The last article was suppose to include this but turned into taxes aren’t infringements. I’m going to try and stay on topic with the state’s arguments about why certain things are not arms.

Bullets are not arms

This has been debunked so many times it isn’t even worth addressing. The Supreme Court has ruled that ammunition is considered “arms” under the meaning of the Second Amendment. Any ban of ammunition is an infringement and under Bruen triggers “history and tradition”.

Magazines are not arms

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Update

There are three methods for people that are not members of GunFreeZone to give feedback on normal articles.

1. They can create a WordPress.org account and click the “like” button on a post. This attaches their wordpress avatar and name to the like.
2. They can click the thumbs up button on a comment. This is completely anonymous.
3. They can click the thumbs down button on a comment. This is completely anonymous.

I hope this clears up any confusion I created.

Original

I have noticed and a couple of readers have noticed that there are more thumbs down on the blog than theirthere use to be. This leads me and some of our readers to wonder Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

I’ll start with Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity You can replace “stupidity” with all sorts of other words but the gist stays the same.

First, when you use the like button at the bottom of a post you need to have a WordPress.org account and your handle and avatar are attached to that. So for example I notice when “OldNFO” likes my post. He made a decision not to become a paying member at the blog but continues to read and continues to give feedback whichwhat he can.

Thank you for still being a read OldNFO. Makes me feel good. There are a couple of other regular “Likers” of the same sort. Thank you to all of our readers.

So next we look at those thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. In the past people used them as an acknowledgement tool. You post a comment and I post a reply and instead of posting a reply to my reply you just click the “Likey” thumbs up button.

If you don’t agree but not enough you just leave it be. No thumbs up, no thumbs down.

If you disagree you will likely reply and a conversation takes place.

We almost never used the thumbs down button. As was observed.

Today there are many more people that read but don’t comment. So when they disagree with you they can’t reply, instead they give it a thumbs down.

So at first flush, I think that the increase in thumbs down is a direct result in us trying to monetize the blog.

Unfortunately, the thumbs up/thumbs down buttons are completely anonymous. There is code to make sure that they can’t be mass mashed but that is it.

So for the time being let’s just see where it takes us. Maybe we figure out something to let people do a one time comment or something like that. All it takes is a small bit of code… (That’s an inside joke for developers/coders)

Then again, Hanlon’s Razor may be in play. Still, I am a paranoid and would just walk out of that pawnshop.

Palmettos State is running a great sale:

If you know a person that need a starter firearm and is short on cash, this is the way I would get them started. And even the Glock cultists cannot complain because 10 frigging G19 mags come with the darn package for later upgrades to the Austrian Wunder BangBang.

B.L.U.F. In the last post I described the leftist argument that Nuclear Weapons are outside of the scope of the Second Amendment. I submit that they are within the scope of the Second Amendment but that the Supreme Court’s current opinions put them outside the Scope.

This article covers the state attempting to claim that certain arms are not within the scope of the Second Amendment.

Let’s tax guns out of circulation!

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J. Kb sent me this article: Hilton, Holiday Inn allegedly let predators into women’s rooms: lawsuits (nypost.com).

Horrifying cases of women being raped in their rooms at top hotel chains are occurring because staff are allegedly handing over keys to sexual predators unchecked, The Post can reveal.

In two separate cases in Texas, men allegedly broke into women’s rooms after lying to staff to obtain keycards.

In an even more shocking incident, one man was allegedly able to convince police and hotel staff to deliver his victim to his room at a Hilton-owned property.

Back when I worked hotel security, the fastest way for anybody to get his/her ass on the street besides stealing from a guest was to give somebody access to a room without proper verification. If the person was not registered to the room, access was automatically denied. It made some people mad, but the risk of having somebody raped or killed was simply too much for the bean counters to accept.

That being said: shit will happen because workers suck, are tired or have momentary lapses of high-grade stupidity like leaving master keys unattended.   It always made me a bit upset that women, knowing they could be targeted, did not care much about being safe. In all my years, I only got one request from a female to escort her to her room and she actually had a tac light with her which she used to check the room from top to bottom before settling for the night.

Hotels are locations with multiple access points and most of them are not secured from uninvited access. Move around as if you were in enemy territory, head on a swivel at all times and prepared to repeal attackers. Never give away your room number to anybody and don’t charge anything to your room so people nearby do not know where you are. And above all, do not trust the locks and “security” devices that come with the doors (or even the doors) as there are many ways to bypass them. A security door jammer that uses the floor to resist attacks is the one I would recommend as I am not too sure about devices that attack to the lock and doorjamb. And as extra security, you may want to place a chair and luggage or whatever bulky objects are available against the door to slow down anybody who manages to break in. Noise is an ally and early warning is a good thing so you can access the legal tool of your defense.

And don’t forget: Just because you are away from home, does not mean you get to act like a fool. You are in a strange land, strange building and more than likely have zero idea of the behavior of the locals.